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And, presumably, you have taken an introductory statistics class? Hm. Probably in high school, and then in college (assuming you've been) you skipped the introductory class and took one with only T-tests etc. and no counting problems? Seems like the most likely way to miss learning Bayes' theorem and still make that statement.
Data point - in my intro stats course (at college), 'Bayes Theorem' was never explicitly taught, but you get all the probability required and are given Bayes-like problems (that I explicitly used Bayes' to solve) - they just never put an intimidating theorem on the board.
This may or may not be standard in intro stats courses
In the CMU OLI course on statistics, Bayes Theorem is presented late on in the course, very briefly, and as restricted to simple population sampling; it's very easy to see how someone taking it could forget about it the day after doing the problems.